Coming Soon on Absolute Radio

Find out about upcoming events on Absolute Radio, including competitions, interviews and live music sessions.

Forgotten 80s with Matthew Rudd

Sunday 26 May 2013 from 7.00pm
An all-new show for Absolute 80s! Matthew Rudd features those stunning tracks that may have slipped your memory 'til now.

Bobby Gillespie: Interview

Sunday 26 May 2013 from 8.00pm
On Sunday Night Music Club with Sarah Champion, hear Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream speaking about their new album.

Monday 27 May 2013 from 6.00am
On Absolute Classic Rock, Absolute 80s and Absolute Radio 90s, we'll be playing blocks of tracks by your favourite artists to kick off each hour! Expect blocks of songs each hour from the likes of Queen & Led Zeppelin, Madonna & Michael Jackson, and The Stone Roses & Nirvana.

War of the Worlds: The New Generation

Monday 27 May 2013 from 9.00pm
Over on Absolute Radio 70s, composer Jeff Wayne - a fascinating storyteller, as well as genius musician - talks to Martyn Lee about the new musical version of The War of The Worlds recently released.

Best of Let's Rock The Moor

Monday 27 May 2013 from 9.00pm
Over on Absolute 80s, hear highlights from the big interviews with all the 80s stars who appeared at this year's Let's Rock The Moor festival. Our very own host with the most Tony Hadley will be talking to Midge Ure, Howard Jones, Bananarama and more.

Primal Scream Special: More Light

Monday 27 May 2013 from 9.00pm
Over on Absolute Radio 90s, Bobby Gillespie talks extensively to Pete Mitchell about the new album More Light in an hour-long celebration of the mighty Primal Scream.

Thunder on Absolute Classic Rock

Wednesday 29 May 2013 from 2.00pm
On Absolute Classic Rock... On the eve of the closing show of their UK tour with Journey and Whitesnake, Russ Williams plays acoustic tracks from a session with Thunder, who surprised him with an acoustic set on his 20th anniversary on air recently...

Miles Kane: Co-host

Wednesday 29 May 2013 from 8.00pm
Miles Kane guests hosts from 8pm - 9pm on Pete Donaldson's show.

Passenger: Live session

Thursday 30 May 2013 from 9.00pm
We'll be hearing session tracks from Passenger, recorded at Absolute Radio.

Miles Kane: 6 From the 60s

Sunday 2 June 2013 from 6.00pm
Over on Absolute Radio 60s, Pete Mitchell talks to Miles Kane about his love of The Four Tops, Dusty Springfield and more.

The Story of Andrew Loog Oldham

Sunday 2 June 2013 from 8.00pm
On Absolute Classic Rock... Pete Mitchell sits down to talk to the man who set the Stones rolling: entrepreneur Andrew Loog Oldham. After discovering the group in 1962, he promoted them as the 'anti Beatles', encouraged Mick and Keith to start writing original material and produced every Stones recording between 1963 and 1967. Leona's Sunday Night Rock show follows at 9pm

The xx at Abbey Road Studios

Sunday 2 June 2013 from 10.00pm
Over on Absolute Radio 00s, Geoff Lloyd will be chatting to the 2010 Mercury Prize winners as they perform tracks from their latest album Co-Exist at the world famous Abbey Road Studios.

10cc: Guest Hosts

Sunday 9 June 2013 from 7.00pm
Over on Absolute Radio 70s, Graham Gouldman of 10cc hosts a show picking some 70s favourites and telling stories from throughout his career. He toured the UK in April with intimate acoustic performances of 10cc classics, plus some of the hits he wrote for The Yardbirds, The Hollies and his other band Wax.

The British Electric Foundation on Absolute 80s

Sunday 9 June 2013 from 9.00pm
Over on Absolute 80s... After the Human League split, and before they formed Heaven 17, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh released their first volume of their B.E.F. series (British Electric Foundation),which would go on to acquire cult status and broad critical acclaim. Fast-forward 30 years and they are about to issue Volume 3. Martyn Ware, plus guest vocalists Andy Bell and Kim Wilde join Absolute 80s to talk about the release of Dark.